Hodgetwins dissect a chaotic Cracker Barrel showdown where a Black employee challenges a manager's strict dress code, specifically the ban on earrings larger than a dime. While the manager accuses her of a bad attitude and violating policies like wearing bracelets, observers suspect racial targeting and evidence gathering for an OSHA or employment commission lawsuit. The confrontation escalates as the employee refuses to undress publicly, sparking debates on "black fatigue" versus standard handbook enforcement. Ultimately, the incident highlights how trivial regulations can devolve into public spectacles, raising questions about workplace fairness and the potential for legal action against discriminatory management tactics. [Automatically generated summary]
Transcriber: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, sat-12l-sm, and large-v3-turbo
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Dress Code Disputes00:02:27
The management told me what to do.
And then the pants that I had on, I think it was yesterday, I've worn them before.
But you told me it can't have the pockets on the side.
And I got new pants on.
So tell me, according to the policy, where does it state that I have to clock out and go home if I'm obeying the policy?
But you're not.
If I'm obeying the policy.
But you're not.
I am obeying the policy.
How do you know if my earrings are a dime size?
Because I can tell.
Because you can tell.
Smaller than a dime.
Clock out.
Okay.
Now, you said you can tell that they're not a dime size.
Is that an accurate measurement?
Is that an accurate management?
Is that a.
You are so sure.
If they are smaller than a dime, why can you not remove one and wick in this room?
Because you're not taking anything off my person.
So they sit in a home for her earrings are too big.
Now, culturally, black women do love to wear them big hoops.
Yeah.
It's genetic, right?
So, but you can't wear them over a dime size while you're working in Cracker Barrel, right?
So she just told her, pull them off and we can measure them.
Right.
She said, no, you're not going to make me undress here.
Yeah.
She said that's undressing.
Is that too much to ask?
Is that too much of a sacrifice for someone to give you a job?
You fit that dress code.
Are these employees asking too much?
Employers?
Yeah.
I don't think so.
I don't think so either.
So what is this female sub-seurance problem?
They gave you a job.
You just got to fit that dress code.
Well, Kevin, you know what's going on here.
These ladies are white.
Black people see the world through a racist lens.
So they think she has ulterior motives to fire just because she's black, which is crazy.
They gave you a job.
Yeah.
I could tell why they're getting rid of you and they're being so picky about how you dress.
Your attitude sucks.
It don't suck.
It stinks.
You are so sure.
If they are smaller than a dime, why can you not remove one and we can this year?
Because you're not taking anything off my person and because you're not going to violate my rights and I'm not undressing for this company.
I feel very uncomfortable and I feel very disrespectful.
Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.
I know exactly what I'm talking about.
You don't know what the hell you talking about.
I know what she's talking about.
Gathering Evidence to Sue00:07:06
She's trying to sue them.
She's recording this to set up a case through OSHA.
That's what she's doing.
OSHA?
Yeah, OSHA.
OSHA has nothing to do with this.
Yeah, OSHA is like when you're getting hurt, there's not enough bathrooms available, stuff like that.
Unsafe.
There's a lot of stuff.
Yeah?
Yeah.
They do a lot of things.
There's a lot of requirements by OSHA.
That's why we, a lot of companies just overregulate it.
And OSHA is one of them.
Well, this is like, this doesn't fall on the OSHA.
This is like...
It's a restaurant.
I don't think this situation falls on the OSHA.
This is like employee handbook guidelines.
You know why I said that?
I came across that at one dude's video.
You can sue your employees so much.
All you got to do is record the conversation.
Majority of these regulations, these employees are not even aware of.
And you could easily sue them.
She's asking her to take off her earrings.
She says, no, you're not going to undress me.
Violate my rights.
The language she's using.
She's trying to gather information to sue them.
Oh, she's setting them up.
That's all she's doing.
She don't really want to work out.
She's trying to get money from a lawsuit.
That's all she's doing.
Allegedly.
Yeah.
You can call Mike.
You can talk to him about it.
I'm not afraid of anything like that.
I know for a fact that I'm right in what I'm doing.
Why would I go out after management told me exactly what to do?
Y'all told everybody else, but everybody else ain't abiding by the rules.
Your daughter was just in the vestibule.
She's not supposed to be in here.
She was just in here.
Your daughter has been serving and she ain't supposed to be working here because that's your daughter.
Yes.
She's setting her up to sue her.
Well, it sounds like they're being fair.
They ain't following their own rules.
Well, Keith, it's hard to be fair and to follow the rules of OSHA of all these regulations because there's like one million of them.
It's hard to keep track of it.
I'm saying she's got a daughter working there.
She ain't supposed to be working there.
That's the first time I've ever even heard of that.
What?
You mean to tell me I got a business I'm running?
I got a job and I can't hire my son or my daughter.
There's a good point.
That's what I'm saying.
This black woman has done her homework.
Yeah.
She's in there now.
This is just a fact-gathering, fact-gathering mission for her to sue them.
That's all this is.
That's the truth.
No friends and family was over with during the holidays.
This is not the holiday.
This is not the holiday.
Okay, so how does she know all the rules and the manager does it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's trying to explain to you.
She's telling you that your daughter had to go.
So there, therefore, yeah, I'm going to tell the truth.
I'm going to tell the truth to shame the devil.
I am.
Yeah, I am.
No, you can't go home.
It's no problem.
You can't.
I can still talk.
I can still talk.
She's finna force you to get up and leave because I'm telling the truth.
That's the type of person she is.
Forcing people to do things that is not according to the policy.
So therefore, y'all, this will be exposed.
I will be getting a lawyer.
So you don't have to worry.
Yeah.
All this is to get, it's a money grab.
Yeah.
It's a money grab.
Worry about it anymore.
Trust me, the news station will be down here.
The EOC will have an attachment.
The EOC, what's that?
Employment, Occupational Commission or something.
Yeah, she did her homework.
Every employer breaks these rules because there's so many rules.
It's hard to live.
It's too many regulations.
It's like trying to follow the Ten Commandments.
It's very hard.
And these regulations, trying to live, try to run your organization by 5,000 commandments.
It's impossible.
So if an employee wants to sue their employee, it's very easy.
All you can do is get on tape.
Yeah.
And my lawyer will have an attachment.
Great job as a GM.
Hey, hold on, excuse me.
Let me show them this right here.
Thank you.
Let me show them.
Let me show them this.
End ring right there in her nose.
See?
Well, it seems like they're not playing by the rules neither.
They're giving other people by the rules.
But she's trying to make it out that they're single out because she's black.
They probably are with that attitude.
Yeah.
Yeah, you got to go.
Yeah, but I don't think they, I don't think they have a problem against her skin color.
They don't like her.
Her attitude.
Yeah.
She's in ring right there in her nose.
I can't even see it.
It's smaller than a dime.
Yeah, it doesn't affect anybody.
Look, she just smiling.
She got black fatigue.
I've told when I confront these people to smile and look away.
Yeah.
You know, she's looking at the manager, smiling like, yep, yeah.
Y'all firing her.
Yeah.
Good job.
That's why a lot of people, when they um, they're looking for employees, they go through the applications, they look at the name.
Nope, not calling them, not calling them.
It's because it's what you got to deal with.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Just look.
Look how small it is.
See her earring?
Smaller than a dime.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm going to tell the truth to shame the devil.
No, I'm going to tell the truth to shame the devil.
Leave me alone, Margaret.
No, leave me alone.
No, I know for a fact this is wrong.
I know for a fact this is wrong.
There's a bracelet right there.
Excuse me.
There's a bracelet right there.
And we're not supposed to have a bracelet on.
See, there's so many regulations you can't abide by all of them.
Yeah, well, you're gonna break it.
How these are company policies, I think.
Yeah, these are company policies, but come on, you got all these employees, all these regulations.
It's hard to, it's hard to account for all of them.
Yeah, they what that manager's doing is she's finding situations where you're breaking policy so she can get rid of you because your attitude stinks.
If your attitude didn't stink, like these other people, they would overlook it, they'll overlook it.
Yeah, yeah, that's what's going on, I think.
Great point, great point.
Yeah, you know what?
I'm an intellectual, but you see, she's got a hidden agenda, she's got ulterior motives.
Yeah, yeah, black fatigue, black fatigue.
Yeah, I wonder why they put this on the everybody, every employee, every employer bends the rules because some a majority of them are so trivial.
Why we even have this regulation?
Well, these this is crockerbarrel, yeah.
So it's like they have they put all these requirements over these employees and they got to enforce them or whatever, but yeah, like um, there's a joke by Steve Harvey.
When you fire a black person, you better have security on hand because it's about to go down.
You don't fire black people at work, you see.
What she should have did, yeah, what she should have did after she was done with her shift, call their home, say, Yep, we will no longer be needing your services exactly.
Or if you're gonna fire her at the end of her shift or during her shift, call security and keep your lips shut.
Say, clack out, you've been relieved of your duty.
Nice knowing you.
Now you're just feeding it in, you're just feeding her agenda.